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A prairie rattlesnake, like this one shown swallowing a Stellar's jay, bit a Douglas County sheriff's deputy on the hand while he was trying to move the snake away from an area where children were playing.
A slate-gray dipper peeks out from a thick tuft of moss, watching for the right time to plunge head-first into the Fryingpan River.
A hunter's silhouette is a dark contrast against a colorful sunrise while he awaits the arrival of waterfowl.
Hecla Junction in Browns Canyon is a favorite takeout/launch area for Arkansas River whitewater fans. The proposed wilderness lies upriver on the far side. It does not include the actual river corridor.
Designated wilderness in the U.S. is scattered from above timberline to sea level, but no such land east of the Continental Divide has been declared wilderness, says Michael Kunkel, of Friends of Browns Canyon. He says it's about time.
I'm retiring. I'm leaving the greatest job on Earth and the newspaper that let me do it for 21 years. You might say I'm going fishing, and you might be right.
Like much of the last of Colorado's best country, the Hermosa Creek drainage north of Durango is hardly a secret.
The industrial takeover of the West is not about oil or the price of gasoline at the pump. Domestic oil production, in fact, has suffered from a shell game.
Dave Johnson climbed an alpine ridge, stepped into space and soared to a craggy place where mountain goats hang out.
It's getting creepier by the minute out there. To the nightmare cauldron of invasive species that have made inroads into the state's waters, we now add quagga mussels.
Waterfowlers who haven't already grown terminally frustrated chasing hordes of migrating snow geese in spring have another reason to haul thousands of white decoys around the Eastern Plains.
Go up high, and you might find a trout stream starting to look like one. After a long, frustrating runoff, rivers and streams are starting to settle a bit.
Fishing closer to home these days? You're not alone.
It might seem hard to believe, with a lingering winter only recently gone belly up, but daylight hours are waning. Accordingly, agencies have been planning for the 2008-09 waterfowl hunting seasons.
Let freedom ring. To say the view from a granite knob high above the east bank of the Arkansas River inspires patriotic sentiment would be an understatement.
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